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- The Variscan orogeny, or Hercynian orogeny, was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia)...
- (2002). "Paleozoic evolution of pre-Variscan terranes: From Gondwana to the Variscan collision" (PDF). Variscan-Appalachian dynamics: The building of...
- Caledonian, Alleghenian, Mauritanide and Variscan orogenies. The eastern portions of the range are also called the Variscan Mountains. The Central Pangean Mountains...
- Permian (more than 300 million years old) and therefore deformed during the Variscan Orogeny. Parts of the Sudetes within the Bohemian M****if, Giant Mountains...
- laying to the south. The Central Pangean Mountains were formed during the Variscan-Alleghanian-Ouachita orogeny. Today their remains stretch over 10,000 km...
- island of Variscan rocks embedded in Rotliegend. While the near-surface rocks of the Thuringian Highland comprise mostly the folded Variscan ba****t,...
- include the Acadian Orogeny in North America and the beginning of the Variscan Orogeny in Europe. These early collisions preceded the formation of the...
- Sudetes originated during the Variscan orogeny and its aftermath. The Sudetes are the northeasternmost accessible part of Variscan orogen as in the North European...
- formed during the Hercynian period. This mountain building episode was the Variscan orogeny, named after Hof's Latin name (and the tribe of Varisci) of Curia...
- extension and thinning due to slab rollback of the African Plate. The Variscan orogeny was a result of the collision between the Laurussia and Gondwana...